Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Fasting

Nouns
  • fasting
  • xerophagy
  • famishment, starvation. fast
  • fast day, banyan day
  • Lent, quadragesima
  • Ramadan, Ramazan
  • spare diet, meager diet
  • lenten diet, lenten entertainment
  • short commons, Barmecide feast
  • short rations.
Verbs
  • fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hunger
  • dine with Duke Humphrey
  • make two bites of a cherry.
Adjectives
  • lenten, quadragesimal
  • unfed
  • starved etc. v.
  • half-starved
  • fasting etc. v.
  • hungry etc. Desire.